EA Los Angeles

Despite being one of the bigger names in the RTS genre, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight risks being drowned out and overshadowed by a beta. If it were any other game, that would be bizarre. But the latest installment of Command & Conquer is going up against the StarCraft II beta. That explains a lot.

Although Blizzard’s title may grab the headlines, players shouldn’t discount Command & Conquer 4. The EA Los Angeles title grabs elements of role-playing games, mass multiplayer online games and first-person shooters to create something new. From the get-go, players will instantly be thrown into gameplay they may not be used to. They’ll have a moving base called a Crawler that can deploy structures and units. To succeed, they’ll have to point and click this crawler across the map, taking over other bases and eliminating enemy units.

Matt Ott, associate producer, said, “The movement makes you play more aggressively and play the way the developers intended.”